RFC: Fix for PR1260

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> * Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> [2013-01-18 15:35]:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > This patch fixes PR1260: IcedTea-Web should not rely on GTK
> > > 
> > > ChangeLog:
> > > 2013-01-16  Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com>
> > > 
> > >     PR1260: IcedTea-Web should not rely on GTK
> > >     * Makefile.am: Remove GTK includes and links
> > >     * acinclude.m4: Remove check for GTK libs
> > >     * plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaJavaRequestProcessor.h: Removed
> > >     gtk.h
> > >     include
> > >     and added unistd include (for usleep) which gtk.h brought in
> > >     before
> > >     * plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc: Remove GTK dialog
> > >     shown
> > >     when java
> > >     is not found
> > >     * plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.h: Removed gtk.h include
> > > 
> > > 
> > > OK for HEAD and 1.3? 1.2 currently links against GTK2 only, and
> > > since
> > > there
> > > have been no requests for GTK3 there, I think we should leave it
> > > alone.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Deepak
> > > 
> > 
> > So what happens now when Java isn't found?  Most users running a
> > browser
> > aren't going to see a message printed to stderr, are they?
> 
> Right, not on stderr. It will still be logged into ~/.xsession-errors
> though.
> 
> Cheers,
> Deepak
> 
> > --
> > Andrew :)
> > 
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> 

Doesn't the browser provide a way of passing messages to the user?

I doubt most novice users are going to look in ~/.xsession-errors either.
-- 
Andrew :)

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